Here are our weekly picks for must-reads relating to the apartment industry, and a few items we think you’ll just find interesting.

Submitting a comprehensive rent roll is one way to ensure the fastest access to multifamily financing. Here’s what a great rent roll looks like.

Results from the first-ever ABA Commercial Real Estate survey point to a healthy 2016 when it comes to commercial real estate lending.

You’re probably familiar with the Millennials and Baby Boomers, but what about the Perma-Renter, Pet People and Miscellaneous Elites?

Matt Maison, director, research and analysis at Arbor Commercial Mortgage, presents his takeaways from the NMHC Research forum held in Chicago April 6 – 7.

Mention Millennials, and the first thing many tend to picture is a young adult who has ‘failed to launch’.

Our previous look at the demographics driving apartment demand focused primarily on younger renters — let’s now look at the other end of the age spectrum.

Valued at $25.5 billion and responsible for 17 million short-term stays between Memorial Day and Labor Day last summer, Airbnb has proven disruptive in the truest sense of the word for the hospitality industry. Could it do the same to multifamily?

There’s a seemingly endless stream of new metrics being used to assess the multifamily market during its current run as the preferred real estate investment class. Let’s take a closer look at Consumer Price Index (CPI).

While Portland took the top spot with annual rent growth of 12.0%, seven of the top 25 MSAs for apartment rent growth in 2015 were in California.